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Cold boot hack protection now available

Cold boot hack protection now available

The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced on Tuesday.

The cold boot vulnerability allows hackers to steal encryption keys from dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory in laptops that have been recently powered down. While Microsoft says such an attack is unlikely, Princeton researchers in February said it is possible because data previously thought to disappear immediately from DRAM persists for a while after the computer has been shut off.

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Customer success story: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Better controls on protecting entertainment

Security Management: Align Security With Business Needs

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IT Security as Business Enabler

Better management and intergration

Managing the chaos of IT security

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Customer Success Story: China Construction Bank

Simplified and secure IT management protects competitive advantage of China’s largest bank

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CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY: COLUMBUS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Sign-on simplification helps Columbus Children’s Hospital improve employee satisfaction and patient safety.

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY:ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS

Associated Newspapers safeguards the production of its publications and improves availability for journalists in remote locations.

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NASA employee scammed with "dating"attack

The latest targeted attack incident being studied by security pros - a simple online dating scam that endangered NASA's secrets.

Opinion

Principles of good key management

Principles of good key management

Too many businesses do not understand the importance of proper key management and they are not helped by vendors who make it very difficult to develop enterprise wide policies and systems. Nevertheless, best practice should be implemented.

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Hackers focus efforts on Firefox, Safari

Hackers focus efforts on Firefox, Safari

Forget the idea that just because you've switched to a new browser, you're magically safer. You may be for a time, but to stay safe with any software, you need to keep current with fixes.

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Opinion

Moving towards a smarter LAN

Moving towards a smarter LAN

The network, the identity store, and policy - currently, these three elements are fairly separate, but integrate them tightly and watch them simplify the administration of controls in your LAN.

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Identity theft isn't just personal, it's corporate

Identity theft isn't just personal, it's corporate

Businesses need to look at their data from a risk perspective and see where they should be prioritising the areas that are of the greatest risk, suggests one expert.

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